See below On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> 2009/4/14 Alvaro Carrasco <alv...@fractaldata.net>: > > Hi Richard, > > > > Sorry about not sending to the list, I found this post while browsing the > > internet and i'm not subscribed to the php-windows list. > > > >> Hi. > >> > >> I'm trying to find an ORM tool to allow me to talk to Microsoft SQL > > > >> servers (V7, 2000 and 2005) for Windows. > >> > >> For those that use ORM, what do you use? > >> > > > > I'm the main developer of Outlet ORM and I currently use it with SQL > Server > > 2005. Outlet relies on PDO and I use the PDO_ODBC driver when connecting > to > > SQL Server from windows. Here is the link to the project: > > > > http://www.outlet-orm.org > > > >> I've looked at Doctrine (requires php_pdo_mssql which isn't part of > >> the VC9 win32 builds; for the VC6 builds, it requires ntwdblib.dll > > > >> which is oh so dead). > >> > >> I'm looking into Propel next. This now seems to be using PDO and > >> PDO_MSSQL, so it seems I've got the same problems. > >> > >> Ideally, using the nice shiny Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP > > > >> from Microsoft (http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2K5PHP) would be nice. But > >> this isn't PDO. > >> > >> Is there anyone capable of getting the Microsoft driver PDO aware? > > > > > > I'm planning on wrapping the new 2005 driver with a PDO-interface. In > case > > you're interested, I'll post my progress to the outlet mailing list at: > > http://groups.google.com/group/outlet-orm > > > > > >> > >> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Richard Quadling. > > > > Feel free to redistribute this email if you want. > > > > > > Alvaro Carrasco > > > > > > Thank you to Alvaro for this. > > > > Alvaro, will you be able to submit your wrapper to PHP so that it can > become part of the core release? Currently, for VC9, there is no > php_mssql or php_pdo_mssql (php-5.3-win32-VC9-x86-latest as at > 2009/04/15 04:50) Sorry, I meant a wrapper written in PHP that extends PDO but uses the new driver's functions. Unfortunately, my C skills are not quite where they need to be to write a PHP extension :( I also just realized that the new driver uses the ODBC client for the underlying low-level communication. Is there any benefit to using this new driver as opposed to the PDO_ODBC driver to connect SQL Server? Alvaro > > > A replacement is needed. > > Regards, > > Richard Quadling. > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" >
